oppressed because they have children they can’t care for but have no access to contraception. The oppressed are victims of human trafficking, as well as those who are denied the right to vote and those whose unions are being dismantled so they no longer have a voice.
The Democrats have a long record of caring about the middle class and the 15% of our country who live in poverty. However, there is virtually nothing about discrimination and the poor in the Republican Platforms in 2008 or 2012. The Republican concern is for the wealthier among us. They want to make sure that everyone is enabled to “have a chance to own, invest, build, and prosper.”20 Rick Santorum, former senator and presidential candidate, was asked if the Republican Party cares about the poor. He responded, “I’m not sure we do.”21 Many Republican actions confirm this—blocking a bill to raise the minimum wage, cutting food stamps, voting “no” to the Fair Pay Act, denying low income and poor women access to basic health care; the list goes on and on.
Liberation Theology: Transforming the World
We take the Gospel into society and ask, “What can the Gospel tell us about the best choices to make when we’re creating laws and public policy? What does it mean to be a Christian in society? How do we best express our Christian values and our faith in public?”
In 1968, a number of Catholic priests, bishops, and laypeople met at Medellín, northwest of Bogotá, Colombia, and began questioning how to be more effective in their work with the poor in Latin America and South America. They recognized that the poor are often kept in poverty by social, religious, and political structures. They looked at ways the government, the Church, and the wealthy colluded to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. The participants wanted to understand how they could be effective in changing social conditions that would also change the abject poverty and misery of millions of lives.
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